How do I know if I'm good at programming?

Re:How do I know if I'm good at programming? by Animats on Sunday July 23, 2017 @03:06PM (#14833847)

All the founders of Autodesk were of the second type. Most were mainframe OS maintenance programmers who fixed kernel bugs in assembler.

A big issue for AutoCAD was "don't lose the user's work". Customers were not forgiving of that. New features were less important.

Autodesk is still around, market cap around $26 billion. They're still selling expensive software that works, and have been profitable for over 30 years.

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Re:How do I know if I'm good at programming? by animal531 on Monday July 24, 2017 @09:03AM (#14838061)

Just a small comment on AutoCAD. Any software product that's successful for 34 years is pretty impressive in my book.

3d apps especially seem to suffer from bloat, which then leads to competitors getting the leg up and the original dying off; then repeat for the competitors.

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